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Myriam Gicquello

Myriam joined Newcastle Law School in July 2022 as a Lecturer in Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Prior to that, she completed her PhD in Law at King’s College London, while also being a Visiting Lecturer and a Research Assistant at King’s. Myriam is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and co-editor in chief of the journal of ‘Mediation Theory and Practice’.

Myriam’s research interests lie in the influence of non-legal factors on courts and out-of-court processes such as arbitration. She is particularly interested in the impact of judges’ and arbitrators’ psychology on their decision-making. Her doctorate, awarded in 2022, was an extensive study of the psychology of arbitral decision-making in international disputes.

Using this psychological / behavioural analysis of law, Myriam has published widely in the areas of investment arbitration, international arbitration, climate arbitration, climate policymaking, and the use of artificial intelligence in international arbitration.

She is currently the co-editor of an edited book, together with Dr Melanie Jean Murcott and Dr Emily Webster (posthumously), on the influence of extra-legal factors in climate adjudication across the Global North and the Global South (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). Myriam is also a co-investigator in an ESRC-funded project on the ‘Sociological and Psychological Underpinnings of Commercial Arbitration in Europe’.

At Newcastle Law School, Myriam runs modules on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Online Dispute Resolution. Given her European background that includes a French legal education, she teaches on the UK and European Union module and Legal Institutions and Methods. Myriam is also the Deputy Programme Director for the online LLM programme in Mediation and International Dispute Resolution run together with the Mediator Academy, the Law Staff Coordinator for the Peer mentoring Scheme aimed at facilitating first years’ transition from college/sixth form to university life, and an UG Admission Officer.